All I care about when it comes to editors is availability (on every platform, can be used in a terminal), longevity, and the community for third party plugins. Vim still checks all of those boxes and the only real other contender is still Emacs.
Vim is super crusty, Kakoune and helix have better takes on the unix philosophy, integrations. VSCode is easier for absolute beginners to click around in. IntelliJ has better semantic parsing. But none of that matters. None of that holds me back from being successful. I just need an editor I can type code in that I will never have to give up, that will just be there, and I can use at the next job. In fact Vim's quick editing is just a nice to have, it's never been the difference between me killing it and getting killed at work. That's why I'm sticking with Vim.
Vim is super crusty, Kakoune and helix have better takes on the unix philosophy, integrations. VSCode is easier for absolute beginners to click around in. IntelliJ has better semantic parsing. But none of that matters. None of that holds me back from being successful. I just need an editor I can type code in that I will never have to give up, that will just be there, and I can use at the next job. In fact Vim's quick editing is just a nice to have, it's never been the difference between me killing it and getting killed at work. That's why I'm sticking with Vim.